New study finds ‘strikingly high’ rates of cancer in some Ontario industrial cities
Overall, Sarnia had about 1.5 times more cases of AML than the national average, but the frequency of cases was even higher in the north side of the city and neighbouring Village of Point Edward.
The province of Prince Edward Island was also identified as a hot spot.
“People want to think that they’re being protected, that the government is properly regulating industrial emissions and what this study is showing is that they’re not,” MacDonald, an environmental engineer, told Global News in an interview.